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sclerosis
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sclerosis
n.
abnormal hardening of body tissue (Medicine); hardening of plant tissues or cell walls (Botany)
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Sclerosis
Sclerosis (also sclerosus in the Latin names of a few disorders) is a hardening of tissue and other anatomical features; it may refer to:
- Sclerosis (medicine), a hardening of tissue
- in zoology, a process which hardens forms sclerites, a hardened exoskeleton
- in botany, a process which hardens plant tissue by adding fibers and sclereids, resulting in sclerenchyma
- Cyberbrain Sclerosis, a fictional disease introduced in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. The disease is characterized by hardening of the brain tissues precipitated by the cyberization process.
- In economics, see: Eurosclerosis
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sclerosis
Noun
1. any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue
(synonym) induration
(hypernym) pathology
(hyponym) multiple sclerosis, MS, disseminated sclerosis, disseminated multiple sclerosis
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Sclerosis
(n.)
Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.
Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.
(n.)
Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.
Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.
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amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
noun
Gehrig's disease, a motor neurone disease, similar to muscular sclerosis, where the limbs twitch and the muscles gradually waste away
Gehrig's disease, a motor neurone disease, similar to muscular sclerosis, where the limbs twitch and the muscles gradually waste away
